Talk:West African Campaign (World War I)

Improving article

I've attempted to improve the article using the book by Gorges (1930) – a primary source by someone who was there. Some specific points:

I have shown Captain Bryant's acting rank of Lt.-Col., rather than his substantive rank. (Gorges explains his T&G promotion, then refers to him as Col. Bryant from that point.)

I tried to insert a link from this article into the French Wikipedia article on Brigadier (later General) Joseph Aymerich, but all I got was a broken link. Perhaps a Wiki-ninja would care to make the link. (I obtained an account with the French Wikipedia ... but again, couldn't link Aymerich's page to this one.)

I deleted the comment about there being 'no European German casualties' in the Togoland campaign ... in the light of the fact that someone had thought to put the 'died' symbol after Captain Georg Pfähler. (Gorges does not say specifically either way.) A definitive answer would help.

Overall, it did have the flavour of German PoV, which I've tried to make more neutral; but I think it is fair still to refer to the Cameroons as Kamerun, given that this was the colony's name at the time. --Wally Tharg (talk) 19:48, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

Needed?

Do we need an article to connect together the two campaigns in Togo and Cameroon? There wasn't really a West African campaign, just two separate campaigns. We already have an African theatre article that can link together the various African campaigns and explaint he role Africa played in World War I. I am contemplating proposing this article for deletion Srnec (talk)

Through my research of the two conflicts I have found that the only things connecting them were their geographical proximity and that one British commander, General Charles Macpherson Dobell, was involved in both. The same British unit, the West African Frontier Force was involved in both campaigns as well. This was just for your information. Overall, I would support deletion. Thanks. Nmillers (talk) 09:42, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Is there any material that needs to be merged, or is it all redundant? Srnec (talk) 00:22, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, the only section that is not covered in the two other articles is the one concerning popular culture. Nmillers (talk) 10:27, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

It might actually be wiser to move this article to African theater of World War I and use it as an overview of the fighting in all four German colonies. Parsecboy (talk) 19:24, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

African theatre of World War I already exists. Srnec (talk) 22:54, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Well how about that, I didn't even see that article. In that case, I agree, we don't really need this one. Parsecboy (talk) 16:38, 17 November 2013 (UTC)